Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The key to performance is elegance, not battalions of special cases.
Jon Bentley and Doug McIlroy
A logician trying to explain logic to a programmer is like a cat trying to explain to a fish what it's like to get wet.
Anonymous
I'll try to be nicer if you try to be smarter.
Assaf Nitzan
Java is to JavaScript what Car is to Carpet.
Chris Heilmann
Like a gas, software expands to fill its containing memory completely.
Anonymous
Testing like the TSA.
David Heinemeier Hansson on testing too much
Change breaks the brittle.
Jan Houtema
I would love to change the world, but they won't give me the source code.
Anonymous
Python's syntax succeeds in combining the mistakes of Lisp and Fortran. I do not construe that as progress.
Larry Wall
It won't be covered in the book. The source code has to be useful for something, after all...
Larry Wall